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The international community is applauding Nigeria for being placed on an “irreversible path of growth and development” under President Bola Tinubu, a presidential spokesperson has said, as the administration marked three years in office.
Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, said in a statement on Friday that the administration “can rightly claim bragging rights for what it has achieved against all odds.”
“Two years ago, when the administration was struggling to deal with the unintended consequences of its historic reforms, the campaign would have made sense,” Onanuga wrote.
“But not anymore, as the administration can rightly claim bragging rights for what it has achieved against all odds and why the international community is applauding it for putting Nigeria irrevocably on the path of growth and development.”
Onanuga said the impact of the three-year-old government is best felt at the state and local levels, with states that were unable to pay salaries in May 2023 now doing so with ease.
“States that hitherto were unable to pay salaries by May 2023, with months of unpaid obligations to their workers and pensioners, are now doing so with ease and dreaming big about infrastructure.
“In every state I have visited, I have seen this development. Ogun, my state; Oyo; Nasarawa; Enugu; Ebonyi; Kaduna; Kano; Kebbi; Katsina; and others have witnessed development projects spring up, thanks to President Tinubu’s re-engineering of the federation’s finances and increased allocation to the states.
“When local councils begin to receive their allocations directly from the Federation Account, the Tinubu effect will ensure that more governance cascades down to the 774 local councils.
“State governors who have benefited from this policy have openly admitted that increased allocations have enabled them to bring social and infrastructural development to their states. Many opposition PDP governors who joined the APC did so for this reason—not for the baseless claim that President Tinubu bribed them.”
He quoted Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule as saying President Tinubu “has taken the bullets for all of them” by implementing reforms that increased states’ fortunes.
According to Onanuga, “it has not been all rosy the past three years, especially in the area of making our people safe.”
However, he said the government is providing security forces with the tools they need.
“The man who has taken the bullets to make Nigeria survive a fiscal disaster is even more willing to take additional bullets to make all Nigerians safe,” he said.
Bola Tinubu: the man who took the bullet for Nigeria to survive
By Bayo Onanuga
With politicking intensifying ahead of the January 2027 election, opposition politicians have escalated their campaign of misinformation and calumny to diminish the impact and achievements of this… pic.twitter.com/ghK0GWlKJv
— Bayo Onanuga, OON, CON (@aonanuga1956) May 29, 2026
